What will those electronic geniuses at Google think of next? Now, you can use your mobile phone to map your travel at Jumpclaimer.com. This Internet tool enables travelers to stick digital pins on a world map so your family and friends can then follow your progress. It’s all done with a simple SMS (Short Message…
Want to see the best fares to the most popular destinations from any airport in the world? Simply click on KayakBuzz.com –– and you’ll see the best fares based on how many searches have been done in the past day. (For tonight, there were a total of 142,411 Kayak searches since Sunday.) Kayak.com isn’t a…
When Jack Frost is nipping at your nose — I like to stick my toes into the warm waters somewhere south of where I live. One likely candidate would be the balmy, tropical island of St. Kitts in the southern Caribbean’s Leeward Islands, which is offering great Winter getaway deals right now. Book a 7-night…
Last year, I escaped the December holiday shopping chaos by flying to Europe. If you’d like to follow my lead, check out the Christmas Shopping Package at the highly-rated Hotel Principe de Savoia in Milan, Italy.
he Air Transport Association expects almost 22 million people to fly over the 11 days surrounding the Thanskgiving holiday. After weather delays, computer problems and baggage mishandling last holiday season affected about a half million travelers –– including my family on Christmas Day in Philadelphia on our way from Paris Orly to SFO — the…
Tens of thousands of Web sites sell T-shirts. Hundreds sell T-shirts for scuba divers. One does a particularly good job of combining distinctive scuba diving T-shirts with clever concepts, novel designs, comfy fabrics, and durable prints. That site is DiveJunkie.com.sg out of Singapore. In fact, they were recently presented the Spirit of Enterprise 2005 Award…
Start spreading the news! This is Vagablond’s 400th post to our fashionable travel site since April. We’re growing monthly, with more our unique visitors, more total visitors, more pages and more hits. We’re on pace to again shatter our past month’s numbers, so we must be doing something right!
Today, fashion history is being made in San Francisco. H&M is opening two stores in the uber stylish Union Square shopping area, featuring designers like Stella McCartney: a flagship, 35,000-square-foot store at 150 Powell Street (along the Cable Car line) and one a few blocks at 150 Post Street that’s got 10,000 square feet of…
Even though you have to ride a mule to get to one of the world’s most heralded spas on a remote patch of beach near Yelapa, Mexico, it doesn’t seem to hurt their reputation. I was in Yelapa years ago. Its tropical setting, breezy weather and warm waters reminded me of Tahiti. But now it’s…
Just saw Steve Martin’s “Shopgirl” flick — a poignant, triangle love story about a woman who works at Saks Fifth Avenue (Claire Danes), a rough-edged young man she meets in a laudromat (Jason Schwartzman), and an older wealthy man (Martin). A few of Claire and Jason’s dates take place at City Walk in LA, which…
Many states across the US now have water parks so you can cool off during hot summer days. But one water park in northwest Michigan, a four-hour drive from Detroit, now has something new for winter. It’s called Avalanche Bay Indoor Waterpark at Boyne Mountain–– and it’s the first American park at the base of…
Everyone know Rick Steves –– the travel guru who spends 100 days a year in Europe, guidebook author, TV host, ranconteur and all-around nice guy. Now, he’s gone one step further to make himself even more accessible by making his new “Travel with Rick Steves” public radio show available for download. You’ll also find it…